Underground Climate Change

The Underground Climate Change Global Working Group aims to develop solutions for the ways climate change and rising temperatures threaten the durability and safety of underground infrastructure in urban areas.

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Global 2Gen Education

Using strategic partnerships and evidence-based approaches, the Global 2Gen Education Working Group will test ways in which two-generation interventions alleviate poverty and improve human development worldwide.

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Global FamDNA

The Global Fam DNA Working Group aims to pilot the use of DNA for a database dedicated to supporting immediate reunification of rescued Ukrainian children with their families and ongoing searches into the future.

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Global LLM Values Benchmarking

The Global LLM Values Benchmarking Working Group is undertaking the first systematic, comparative assessment of regional sociopolitical values in Large Language Models (LLMs).

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Shifting Shorelines

The Shifting Shorelines Global Working Group aims to understand and respond to changes in historical and present-day interfaces between land and water, both close to campus and around the world.

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AI and Social Movements

The AI and Social Movement group aims to develop a robust understanding of how social movements evolve and what impacts they might have in their communities.

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Epistemic Reparations

The Epistemic Reparations group aims to create a more holistic and victim-centered framework for understanding reparations to generate recognition of the’ ‘right to be known’ for victims of gross human rights violations.

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Antimicrobial Resistance

The Antimicrobial Resistance Working Group aims to develop basic infrastructure to evaluate antimicrobial resistance (AMR) across two disparate healthcare systems in different parts of the world and understand how healthcare providers make decisions around antibiotic prescribing.

Climate Crisis + Media Arts

The Climate Crisis + Media Arts group seeks to influence cultural and political discourse on the climate emergency by creating new ways of depicting what it means to live and die within a changing climate.

Defusing Disasters

The Defusing Disasters group aims to address the complex challenges of community resilience building through the development of a community-centered approach to produce globally applicable but locally informed Hazardous Weather Vulnerability Indices.

Disproportionate Impacts of Environmental Challenges

The Disproportionate Impacts of Environmental Challenges group aims to solve some of the world’s most pressing environmental problems, while recognizing the disproportionate effects that environmental challenges and their solutions have on marginalized communities. Click to learn more.

Empowering the Next Generation of Global Women Leaders

The Empowering the Next Generation of Global Women Leaders in Universities around the World group aims to help populate the global pipeline of women leaders by developing empirically supported interventions in university-based settings.

Language Curricula and Gender Equality

The Language Curricula and Gender Equality group aims to investigate how language curricula draw on and perpetuate gender stereotypes and how these curricula can be reassessed to challenge and overcome these stereotypes in order to advance gender equality in language learning and beyond.

Making Water Insecurity Visible

The Making Water Insecurity Visible group aims to address major gaps in the measurement and visibility of the underlying issues driving the global water crisis by using ethnographies, surveys and biosensors to produce new data on water insecurity and issues of water quality.

Race, Caste and Colorism

The Race, Caste and Colorism Working Group seeks to develop an interdisciplinary project that explores the cultural and social systems of racism, casteism, and colorism worldwide, with a focus on the U.S., South Asia, and the Caribbean/Latin America.

Trauma, Music and the Breath

The Trauma, Music and the Breath aims to gather an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, researchers, musicians, and thought leaders to examine the ways music is being used globally to improve the health and well-being of children throughout and following the traumas of COVID-19.